I'm sentimental -- I know. I'm desperate and silly -- I know that too. Oh, help me!

I don't intend to shrink from the truth, because the longer it's postponed, the harder it will be for them to accept it when they do hear it!

How noble and good everyone could be if, at the end of each day, they were to review their own behavior and weigh up the rights and wrongs.

An empty day, though clear and bright, Is just as dark as any night.

Crying can bring relief, as long as you don't cry alone.

When I think back to my life in 1942, it all seems so unreal. The Anne Frank who enjoyed that heavenly existence was completely different from the one who has grown wise within these walls.

A person can be lonely even if he is loved by many people, because he is still not the One and Only to anyone.

What one Christian does is his own responsibility, what one Jew does is thrown back at all Jews.

The nicest part is being able to write down all my thoughts and feeling; otherwise, I might suffocate.

Deep down I know I could never be that innocent again, however much I'd like to be.

Writing in a diary is a really strange experience for someone like me. Not only because I've never written anything before, but also because it seems to me that later on neither I nor anyone else will be interested in the musings of a thirteen-year-old schoolgirl.

Deep down, the young are lonelier than the old.

Who would ever think that so much went on in the soul of a young girl?

There's in people simply an urge to destroy, an urge to kill, to murder and rage, and until all mankind, without exception, undergoes a great change, wars will be waged, everything that has been built up, cultivated, and grown will be destroyed and disfigured, after which mankind will have to begin all over again.

I believe that in the course of the next century the notion that it's a woman's duty to have children will change and make way for the respect and admiration of all women, who bear their burdens without complaint or a lot of pompous words!

If I haven't any talent for writing books or newspaper articles, well, then I can always write for myself.

Live with the objective of being happy.

Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.

You can get around to meaningful conversations more quickly in the dark than with the sun tickling your face.